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Article: SDDC helps 25th Infantry Division move to two conflicts in two months.
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- Translog
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- March 22, 2004
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For the second time in two months, the great gray bulk of the USNS Pililaau steamed from Pearl Harbor, loaded with equipment of the 25th Infantry Division--bound for a foreign contingency.
The Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-on/Roll-off vessel departed Feb. 18 carrying the equipment of 4,500 Soldiers of the division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team and supporting units, for Operation Enduring Freedom, in Afghanistan.
Just two months earlier, the Pililaau deployed with the equipment of 5,000 "Tropic Lightning" Soldiers bound tot Operation Iraqi Freedom, in Iraq.
"It is all pretty amazing," said Col. Tom Harvey, commander 599th Transportation Group, Wheeler ...